Moshe Poliak
@moshepoliak.bsky.social
PhD student at MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tedlab. I study psycholinguistics. international he/him ex-STEM-phobic
website: mpoliak.notion.site
website: mpoliak.notion.site
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Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal.
We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026
Submit your papers to Open Mind
direct.mit.edu/opmi
June 19, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal.
We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026
Submit your papers to Open Mind
direct.mit.edu/opmi
Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal.
We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026
Submit your papers to Open Mind
direct.mit.edu/opmi
Reposted by Moshe Poliak
New paper exploring the flexibility of control mechanisms in bilinguals is out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social l! w/ @kalinkatimmer.bsky.social, Jakub Szewczyk, and Zofia Wodniecka.
We ask if language context can affect language control in bilinguals.
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We ask if language context can affect language control in bilinguals.
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February 23, 2026 at 12:50 PM
New paper exploring the flexibility of control mechanisms in bilinguals is out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social l! w/ @kalinkatimmer.bsky.social, Jakub Szewczyk, and Zofia Wodniecka.
We ask if language context can affect language control in bilinguals.
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We ask if language context can affect language control in bilinguals.
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Reposted by Moshe Poliak
The cerebellum supports high-level language?? Now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, we systematically examined language-responsive areas of the cerebellum using precision fMRI and identified a *cerebellar satellite* of the neocortical language network!
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January 22, 2026 at 5:21 PM
The cerebellum supports high-level language?? Now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, we systematically examined language-responsive areas of the cerebellum using precision fMRI and identified a *cerebellar satellite* of the neocortical language network!
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Now out in @pnas.org: a tour de force co-led by Sammy Floyd and Olessia Jouravlev (also with @moshepoliak.bsky.social, Zach Mineroff and Ted Gibson): www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
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December 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Now out in @pnas.org: a tour de force co-led by Sammy Floyd and Olessia Jouravlev (also with @moshepoliak.bsky.social, Zach Mineroff and Ted Gibson): www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press.
This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website:
tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...
This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website:
tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...
tedlab.mit.edu
December 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press.
This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website:
tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...
This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website:
tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...
Reposted by Moshe Poliak
Human speech is continuous, and many meaning spaces (like color) are continuous too. Yet we use discrete words like “blue” and “green” that carve these spaces into categories.
In our new paper, we ask: How do people turn continuous spaces into structured, word-like systems for communication? (1/8)
In our new paper, we ask: How do people turn continuous spaces into structured, word-like systems for communication? (1/8)
Discrete and systematic communication in a continuous signal-meaning space
Abstract. Human spoken language uses a continuous stream of acoustic signals to communicate about continuous features of the world, by using discrete forms
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November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Human speech is continuous, and many meaning spaces (like color) are continuous too. Yet we use discrete words like “blue” and “green” that carve these spaces into categories.
In our new paper, we ask: How do people turn continuous spaces into structured, word-like systems for communication? (1/8)
In our new paper, we ask: How do people turn continuous spaces into structured, word-like systems for communication? (1/8)
39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing
March 26-28, 2026
hsp2026.org
MIT, Cambridge MA, USA.
email: [email protected]
Special session: Language and thought in minds and machines
Submission deadline: December 12 2025
(Real deadline; no extension)
March 26-28, 2026
hsp2026.org
MIT, Cambridge MA, USA.
email: [email protected]
Special session: Language and thought in minds and machines
Submission deadline: December 12 2025
(Real deadline; no extension)
39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing
hsp2026.org
October 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing
March 26-28, 2026
hsp2026.org
MIT, Cambridge MA, USA.
email: [email protected]
Special session: Language and thought in minds and machines
Submission deadline: December 12 2025
(Real deadline; no extension)
March 26-28, 2026
hsp2026.org
MIT, Cambridge MA, USA.
email: [email protected]
Special session: Language and thought in minds and machines
Submission deadline: December 12 2025
(Real deadline; no extension)
(1)💡NEW PUBLICATION💡
Word and construction probabilities explain the acceptability of certain long-distance dependency structures
Work with Curtis Chen and Ted Gibson
Link to paper: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...
In memory of Curtis Chen.
Word and construction probabilities explain the acceptability of certain long-distance dependency structures
Work with Curtis Chen and Ted Gibson
Link to paper: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...
In memory of Curtis Chen.
tedlab.mit.edu
August 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
(1)💡NEW PUBLICATION💡
Word and construction probabilities explain the acceptability of certain long-distance dependency structures
Work with Curtis Chen and Ted Gibson
Link to paper: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...
In memory of Curtis Chen.
Word and construction probabilities explain the acceptability of certain long-distance dependency structures
Work with Curtis Chen and Ted Gibson
Link to paper: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...
In memory of Curtis Chen.
Reposted by Moshe Poliak
New paper! 🧠 **The cerebellar components of the human language network**
with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
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The cerebellar components of the human language network
The cerebellum's capacity for neural computation is arguably unmatched. Yet despite evidence of cerebellar contributions to cognition, including language, its precise role remains debated. Here, we sy...
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April 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
New paper! 🧠 **The cerebellar components of the human language network**
with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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